Picture-frame.



F. F. SCHRODER,

PICTURE FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.29, 1917.

Patented Jan. 22,1918.

Y .INVENTOR.

WITNESSES:

w ATTQRNEY/ v FREDERICK E. SCHROIDER, 0F CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PICTURE-FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1918.

Application filed March 29, 1917. Serial No. 158,209.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, FREDERICK F.'SCHRODER, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Picture- Frames, of which the following is a specification.

It is quite a fad for one to collect novelties which have a series of component parts, each of which is given to him by a friend and which in some way identifies the giver. The picture frames herein described are particularly adapted for such purposes and have for an object picture frames of ordinary form connected together so as to have the appearance of a series of links resembling a section of chain in the alternate links of which the pictures of ones friends may be located.

This and other objects are attained in the picture frames described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which;

F lgure 1 is a front view of picture frames embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1, the picture frames being shown fragmcntally in section.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of my improved connecting link, the picture frames not being shown in connection therewith.

My improved picture frames are made preferably of sheet metal formed in the shape of ordinary metal chain links. The frame connecting link is similarly constructed of sheet metal. This produces a hollow body portion 3. At the upper ends of the body portion the metal is pressed into curved formation to resemble the respective upper and lower ends 4 and 5 of the link. At the point to the rear, where the edges of the sheet of metal have been brought together in the pressing operation, sections thereof are cut from the metal to produce lugs 11 and 15 adapted to extend to the rear of the body of the link and having ends 14 and 15 adapted to engage the backs of the picture frames between which the link is located. At the ends of the curved portions 4 and 5 of the link, lugs 6 and 7 are formed, these lugs also being stamped from the sheet of metal of which the link is constructed. The purpose of each of these lugs is to enter between the inner edge of each metal frame and the glass protecting the picture. lhus in cooperation with lugs 14 and 15 lugs 6 and 7 act to prevent displacement of the connecting link and positively to connect the picture frames in such a manner as to prevent their displacement one from the other.

In connecting adjacent frames with a link embodying my invention, the first operation is to spring lugs 14 and 15 until their respective ends 1 1 and 15 will permit of the passage of the picture frames to be connected therewith, between. the respective lugs 14 and 6 and 15 and 7. Having brought the link to this position with relation to the two frames the lugs 6 and 7 are pressed between the inner ec ges of the frames and the glass 8 and 9 protecting the pictures 10 and 11, as disclosed in Fig. 2. This causes lugs 14 and 15 to spring back to their normal positions and to coact in retaining the frames and the link in connection with one another by bearing against the picture frame backs 12 and 13.

Although I have disclosed a design of picture frames and connecting link of circular or oval formation, the form may be other than this.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim is;

1. A picture frame connecting link consisting of a body portion having ends adapted to pass within the frames of pictures to be connected, and lugs extending from the link, adapted to engage the backs of the frames to retain the link in position.

2. A picture frame connecting link consisting of a body portion having ends adapted to pass within the frames of pictures to be connected, lugs formed on the ends, adapted to be located between the inner edges of the frames and the pictures mounted therein, and lugs formed on the body portion adapted to engage the backs of the frames when the first mentioned lugs have been brought into position.

3. The combination of picture frames, and a connecting link located between the frames, said link consisting of a body portion having ends adapted to pass within the frames, lugs formed on the bodv portion adapted to engage the backs of the frames when the first mentioned lugs have been brought into position.

1. T he combination of picture frames, and a connecting link located between the frames,

said link consisting of a body portion having In testimony whereof, I have hereunto ends adapted to pass Within the frames, and subscribed my name this 27 ,day of March, lugs formed on the ends, adapted to be 190- 1917.

sitioned between the inner edges of the v FREDERICK F. SCHRODER. 5 frames and the pictures mounted therein Witnesses:

after the pictures have been mounted Within WALTER F. MURRAY,

the frames. CURTIS C. MYERS.

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